thunderNote

Staying on top of news with thunderNote RSS feed client browser add-on.

Video demo (external link)

https://dwrox.net/demo.webm

Key features

• Works completely in the sidebar, which is fancy.
• Add RSS feeds with custom periodically checks for new content
• Display complete unfiltered feeds in view feeds
• Input keywords or buzzwords to match and display news for.
• Display images via default or disable pictures alltogether
• Add keywords using Add new keyword from the context menu once text or a link is selected.
• Shows notifications, which can be disabled
• Shortcut Arrow left/right to navigate forwards and backwards in news feeds when Single reader mode is active
• Allow export and import of settings and feed data

Installation and testing

Firefox addon page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thundernote

For testing in Firefox: Open "about:debugging", select "Load temporary addon" and then select manifest.json from thunderNote.

Usage

1. Open the Thundernote by clicking on the thunderbold icon in your addon bar
2. Add keywords of interesting topics to look out for, for example EU Sport or Europa either by entering or using the context menu on a text selection
3. Add a feed url, for example: http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2 for the German Tagesschau RSS feed with a check of 1 to 15 minutes.
4. Select view feeds to view the whole feed or Select view topics after the feed got downloaded to look out a selection by keywords
5. Enjoy reading news.